I’m available most weekends and evenings.”. I wonder about an employer that feels the need to know how I handle being the victim of a violent crime. Change "the worst thing that's ever happened to you" to "a negative experience that you've had". If it did, use your support group. Such topics are generally irrelevant to the interview, and interviewees have a reasonable expectation to not be required to reconsider and describe them to people they've just met. And that’s putting aside those who suffered harassment or bullying or people asking for their livers at work, or far worse!) I hadn’t even realised I was doing it until she pointed it out… But it really helped me regain control over my own narrative and put past trauma in the past rather than continue to give it the power to shape my life…. The job was to teach summer college-prep classes to private school kids. I tailor to the audience, but I have a few go-to’s with crazy drunks, near-misses, or wild coincidences. Gross's style of interviewing is extremely low key and open, she's done her research to be familiar with the person that she's interviewing and she really cares about the information she gets. Workplace violence. I was wondering, but in the other direction — that the interviewer has some kind of tragedy porn fetish and he’s using his interviewing role to indulge it. Handling those things mostly involved staying calm and calling the appropriate emergency services, there’s no really much else you can do. “Well, I just had my third baby die and I now believe that the universe is a shitty and unfeeling, random place in which luck takes away joy from good people. It seems to me they were looking for gritty survivors who have overcame great odds. Are we admitting in public those are things now?”. But this is a really good point, a lot of the worst things that have happened to someone involve them being unable to change their circumstances so it becomes much worse than something they could just leave, so there really isn’t anything to be learned except gossip that the interview has no right to ask about or know. I also thought that no way in heck would I ask this question, no matter how my boss insisted. Words cannot accurately convey the terror that grips a parent’s heart when the nurse wheels in the NICU crash cart after informing you the emergency procedure they’re about to perform may cause bleeding on the brain, then you don’t hear your child’s cries and no one will tell you if she’s ok or not. Well this one time I was interviewing for an exciting new job, but then they asked a question so incredibly inappropriate that i could hardly believe it. I’m sorry I made this about myself, but it just kind of burbled out. I used to write the kind of fanfiction where THE TERRIBLEST TERRIBLES (that were somehow in-universe completely and utterly believable to my readers) happened to characters. I wonder if this was a terrible misguided attempt to find triggers? A wise man once told me that if he could wish one thing upon his worst enemy, it would be that he was forced to receive whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted it. I will happily talk about colonoscopy prep, but I’m trying really hard to forget waking up to that discovery. I mean, I don’t feel like I really have an obvious Worst Thing – I’ve been quite fortunate in that way. I tend to be someone who gets impatient with people who complain about being asked to share in a group setting; I’m thinking, “You get to pick, just pick something innocuous. They also asked me what my spirit animal was (“An ocelot? I like you very much. For them, it was suicides, and “helpful” coworkers calling their families before the police could notify them. Unless it’s a panel interview, the interviewer should be able to get away with omitting the question even if it’s “required.” What are they going to do, quiz the applicant on which questions the interviewer asked? Example, because it’s anonymous: my worst thing that happened to me in a work context is a toss up between my boss human trafficking me by taking my lodging out of my wages (thus leaving me with paychecks that regularly came to $12 a week) and then firing and evicting me on the same day, and the time I accidentally sliced my arm open to the fat layer and my boss bandaged it and made me keep working instead of sending me to get stitches, and then denied me worker’s comp. I had a boss, grand boss and half of a team gaslight me and harass me for six months before the grand boss fired me with a letter blaming me, one of the lowest ranked employees there, for poor morale on the team. Death of a student. Don't immediately go to the heart of the situation and get straight to the deep stuff... start off with some softball questions. I wonder if the interviewer was writing a book and wanted some material for it. It’s just such an awkward and weird intro to an awkward and weird question. It’s dangerous territory to ask for any stories, really – you’ll probably get tales of corpses over your dinner salad. Why would a potential employer think they should be privy to that level of intimacy with a candidate??
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